Published Online:December 2024
Product Name:The IUP Journal of English Studies
Product Type:Article
Product Code:IJES071224
Author Name:Shuvendu Ghosh, Rajiv Bhushan and Maninder Kapoor
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Subject/Domain:Arts and Humanities
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Pages:66-75
The application of eco language can be considered as a tool of cultural resistance to linguistic imperialism. In the analysis of indigenous space-conscious values of an ethnic community, the problem, which is a matter of discourse, is: “Is it possible for an ethnic group of people to move forward with contrasting ideas like preservation and progression simultaneously?” This paper traces the application of eco language and space conscious values in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and The Bluest Eye. Beloved highlights the possibilities of applying eco language while generating the idea of space consciousness, whereas The Bluest Eye deals with the limitations of generating spaceconscious values, despite its application of eco language. While Beloved is able to construct cultural resistance, The Bluest Eye fails to do so in terms of creating an indigenous space and identity structure.
There is no racism without language. Toni Morrison’s usage of language in her work of fiction is not simply oriented to its literal meaning but extends an open path of discussion and interpretations for the readers. Morrison, in an interview with Claudia Tate, said, “My language has to have holes and spaces so the reader can come into it” (Morrison 1994, 164).